Haiku Horoscopes

DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I’m going crazy! My husband and I are living up at a lake for the first summer after buying a beautiful new cabin. I thought it was going to be heaven, but it’s been hell for me.

I’m not retired, but I’m able to work at my office job remotely for the summer. The problem is, I’m already lonely and bored while my husband is out fishing. My man goes off in the boat with his buddies in the early morning, often for the whole day and the early evening, too. Now he says he’s “in fisherman’s heaven” with his retired buddies who go explore the many great angling lakes around us.

If it goes on all summer and into early fall, and I’ll be out of my mind by then. Most of the other guys’ wives stay back in the city now. They learned early on it’s a drag to be a fisherman’s “widow.”

I called my boss this morning after my husband left to go fishing. My manager says they’re really busy right now, and could use me there ASAP. Yay! I can come back to the office as soon as I want, but I feel guilty about leaving my husband alone. What should I do?

The cheapest 750 megawatts isn’t a methane plant. It’s our own furnaces.

Manitoba Hydro wants to build up to $3 billion worth of additional methane turbines near Brandon — 750 megawatts of fossil-fuelled power, to get us through the coldest winter evenings and the driest years.

As the Public Utilities Board weighs the plan this summer, Manitobans should ask a simple question — is burning methane really the cheapest way to keep the lights on and the furnaces running?

The evidence says no.